We talk or think about the early settlers to North America, and Australia. But, those people chose to arrive in the New World(s). They would have expected to forage, build a shelter and later a home. It would have been much more than they expected, but they had some experience in finding food, and so on. They came with supplies too.

I seldom read about the convicts who were sent to Canada, US, and Australia. Were some sent to other places too, before they places had European given names? They would have grown up in the cities, rural if they were lucky. How would they have felt after starving in Europe, stealing, lying, cheating, desperate for basic needs like food and shelter?

Now here they are... there's nothing as far as human habitation. Sick and worse for wear to say the least, travelling on the ship for months. Before people built a colony, a settlement, a group shelter, an outhouse. Before any of them knew about native people - even if they could find a way to communicate with them and not be afraid of those "savages".

To land on the shore of Atlantic Canada with nothing but the clothes on your back and whatever might be in your pockets. After being in jail, shuffled along to the ship, the sea voyage which would have taken months. Here they are, get off the ship and what... go climb a tree? The forest would be thick. Only get thicker as they tried to enter it.

Do they know what to eat? Some will poison themselves due to not knowing what is safe to eat. No one would be there to help them if they were sick, if they were injured, if they just wanted to go home again. If they grew up in a city, do they even know how to forage for anything edible? How to trap animals, how to fish? The food would be plenty all around them but... Some of it comes with claws, and teeth, and very little fear of humans.

They would arrive at the end of summer, the beginning of fall, if the trip went well at sea. The ships would not stick around long. The voyage back had to be started on time so they would be at least halfway back to Europe before the weather got rough(er). The sailors and crew of the ships might never have seen winter in Canada or summer in Australia. Unless they were somehow left behind. The convicts would have no idea what was coming. Yes, Europe gets snow in winter. They don't get winter like Canada, winter was even harder then, with more snow and cold. Most of those early people to arrive in Canada and Australia had no chance at all.

At first, if they knew how to forage, they might have thought they were lucky... so much food right there for the picking. After starving in Europe now they had plenty. Could any of them build a fire? How would city dwellers in this time know to build a fire, without matches, or dry wood, or kindling, or rocks to get a spark.

You get the idea, more or less. Those people were not settlers, they were abandoned. Could they work together? Would they work together?

Imagine yourself left on the shore without technology, tools, friends... How many of them died right there, on the shore, just overwhelmed. But they were used to struggling, so I don't think many would have given up so quickly or completely. Those survivors, those few, are the real early settlers. They didn't know it at the time.

I didn't know Lorne Greene had done so much with radio and broadcasting. He must have been an early adopter in his generation. These days where might he be in broadcasting? I bet he'd have a podcast and a web radio show, at the very least. But, no one lives forever. I remember his voice.

Canada's Walk of Fame - Lorne Green He was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2015.

Lorne Greene was born Lyon Himan Green on February 12, 1915, in Ottawa, Ontario, to Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire, Dora (née Grinovsky) and Daniel Green, a shoemaker. He had an older brother who died in the 1918 flu epidemic, no other siblings. His parents wanted him to be a concert violinist. He spent summers teaching drama at Camp Arowhon (1934?) in Algonquin Provincial Park.

I wanted to do a wildlife series. I kept remembering those days in Algonquin Park, drifting along in the bottom of a canoe, and I wanted to transfer that feeling to the viewers. - Lorne Greene

When I was 16, I discovered wildlife. My father took me to a place called Algonquin Park in Northern Ontario - it has some 1,600 lakes. - Lorne Greene

In my youth I wanted to be a concert violinist. - Lorne Greene

I was dragged kicking and screaming into a high-school play then discovered it was fun! - Lorne Greene

He studied chemical engineering at Queen's University. Then switched his major to English and French so he could perform in either language in theatre productions and the drama guild, for which he produced, directed and acted. At CFRC, the campus radio station and one of the oldest operating radio stations in the world, where he experimented with live broadcasts and vocal diction.

He became the chief news broadcaster for the CBC from 1939 to 1942. He narrated documentaries for the National Film Board, including Churchill's Island which won an award for best short documentary. During that time he invented a reverse chronometer (a backward-running watch) for broadcasters, known as the Greene Stopwatch. This allowed news segments to end with split-second precision.

He served in the Second World War as a flying officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force. After the war he co-founded the Jupiter Theatre an taught at the Academy of Radio Arts. In 1950, he was hired to host Newsmagazine. He also acted at the Stratford Theatre. He also sang, he had a mid-60’s hit, Ringo.

Best known for his roles in Bonanza (Ben Cartwright) and Battlestar Galactica. He also appeared in the mini-series Roots in 1977. In 1980 he took on the role of North-West Mounted Police officer, Sam Steele, in Klondike Fever.

Made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1969. Awarded the Earle Grey Award for lifetime achievement at the Gemini Awards in 1987, and Canada's Walk of Fame in 2015 after his death.

He was married twice: first to Rita Hands of Toronto in 1938, with whom he had twins, and later to Nancy Deale in 1961, with whom he had one child.

He was involved with environmental conservation through his series Lorne Greene’s New Wilderness in 1982 until 1987. Co-produced by Greene’s son, Charles.

Deceased in 1987, at age 72. Queen’s University honors him through the Lorne Greene Award for outstanding theatrical achievement. Canada Post featured him in the Canadians in Hollywood stamp series in 2006.

A man's never wrong doing what he thinks is right. - Lorne Greene

Learn about life and when fate takes you by the hand, go. Do it. Dare to do. - Lorne Greene

We used our brains to create and program them, and now we have to continue to use our brains to prevent computers from taking over our lives. -Lorne Greene

I find that the harder I work, the younger I feel. - Lorne Greene

I've never gotten into a heated argument with people. Heat diffuses reason. -Lorne Greene

• The Canadian Encyclopedia - Lorne Greene
• History of Canadian Broadcasting - Lorne Greene 1915 - 1987